Ballast surfacer



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Be it lrnown that l FAsQUALn lUnsINo a citizen of the llnited tates, residing at llensburf in the county of Kittitas and State .of Wa' 'ngton, have invented certain new and useful lmprovenients in Ballast Sur- J facers, ofwhich the following is a specification.`

llliis invention relates to railway ballast forming machines and, more especially,to improvements in the ballast surfacer illustratedV and described in Uni-ted States Patent Flo-,1,313,533, issued to me dune 15, 1920.

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'lhe 'object of the present invention is the .perfecting of the patented apparat-us above referred to and the provision of devices supplementary to those disclosed in said pafent whereby the uses of the apparatus are ex'- tended with an increase in efliciency.

'lhe invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed. .P l

lin the accompanying drawin Figure 1 isa lplan view of apparatus em odying the present invention shown applied to a rail- `way car. Fig. 2 is a view partly in front elevation and partly in transverse section, said section being taken substantially through 2--2 of Fi 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevatlonal view of ig. 1, a part of the car frame being shown in transverse section. Fig. d is a fragmentary section viewthrough d--t of Fig, 1. Fi 5 and 6 are detail sectional views throug 5--5 and 6-6 of Fig. 1.

ln said drawings, the reference numeral designates the platform of a car having wheels 11 which travel on rails, such as 12, laid nponties 13. Secured to the rear end of the car platform is a hinge member` 14: through which extends, longitudinally of the car, a pin 15 for a complementary hinge member 16 in the form of adepending bar. This bar, in turn, serves as a hinge member with respect to the surfacer frame plate 17 bythe provision of aperturedlugs 161 and 171, respectively, on the member 16 and said of 'the hereinafter described surfacing appliances. For operation, said' frame plate is held in oblique angular rela-tions with respect to the car, as shown in'Fig. 1, by means of a draw rod 21 connecting the frame plate with an attachment 22 on the car, as shown.

ties 13- and is connectedto a plate ,25 by means of a vertical pin 23 engaging in apertured lugs 172v and 251 provided on the respective plates. l

'llhe plate 25 has its lower edge 251 formed to a curvature corresponding to the desired transverse contour of the ballast. lin front of the plate 25fis a curved blade 26 having its lower edge' serrated bythe -provsion'of teeth 27 Whose points are directed downwardly and .outwardly from the railway track as shown in Fig. 2, and terminate in a curve which is substantially parallel with and lower than the plate edge 251. l

The blade 26 is secured in spaced relation to the plate 25 by means of bolts 28 extending through distance pieces, such asv 29, Fig. 5. Y

30 represents a reinforcing bar provided -onthe rear side of plate 5 t'o aHord req- .uisite stiffness to the same.

encountering the ties 13 and in opposition to springs 33.

rllhe lower ends of the sections 32 are provided with teeth 34C for digging into themateral between successive ties inthe forwardtravel of the car.

ylln the present invention, l provide in front of the frame plate 17 a plowshare in the nature of an approximately rectangular plate 35 which is disposed in substantially the angular relations with respect to the car in which it is shown in Fig. 1. i

The upper portion of the plowshare is curved forwardly as at 351 and at the bottom it is curved rearwardly as at 352, see Fig. 6.

The curved portion 352, moreover, is formed as shown in Fig. 4C to provide a plurality of share barrow elements 36 disposed to be parallel or nearly so with the traclr.

Said' plowshare is connected to a tri- 31 represents The frame plate 17 isof a width to extend\- to approximately the adjacent ends' of the angular shaped bracket frame 38 which 'is rigidly secured to the frame part 17, said plowshare being arranged for vertical movements by means of bolts 39 (Fig. 6) extending through vertical slots, as 40, provided 1n bracket frame 38 between the plowshare and bearin plates, as 41, which are juxtaposed with tlie bracket frame.

Springs such as 42, Figs. 4 and 6, act to yieldingly retain the plowshare 35 in its lowermost position whereat the bottom of the plowshare will extend below the plane of the top surfaces of the ties. By such an arrangement the plowshare in its forward travel with the car serves to displace material from above and between the ties into the path of the toothed scraper blade 26.

lVhen encountering a tie the curved part of the plowshare serves to elevate the same to enable it to ride over the tie.

The harrow elements above referred to act as a rake for removing large bodies, as rocks or dirt, from the path traveled over by the plowshare.

Located in front of the frame part 17 in approximately parallel relations therewith is a scraper' blade 43 which is hingedly connected at 44 to bracket arms secured to the bracket frame 33. The lower edge of the scraper blade is, like the plowshare, curved so as to be elevated in opposition to a spring 45 when engaging a tie. rlhe scraper blade 43 acts supplemental to the plowshare for removing material from between the ties.

To the rear of the frame part 17 see Fig. 4 are successively positioned a surfacing scraper bar 46 and a brush 47 which are arranged parallel with the ties. The scraper bar 46 isI carried by arms 461 hinged to ears protruding from frame part 17 to afford vertical movements to the scraper bar. This bar is formed, as shown in Fig. 4, with a substantially horizontal flange element 48 having a concavity in its underside and extending rearwardly from a rounded shoulder 49. The rear edge of the flange element acts to smooth the surface of the material between ties and the function of the shoulder 49 is to impart a lifting movement to the bar when engaging a tie so that the bar may pass thereover.

A spring 51 serves to yielding retain said scraper bar in its lowermost position.

The brush 47, which is shown as secured to the arm 52, functions to sweep dirt from the top of the ties and also smooths the surfaces between the ties in following the scraper bar 46.

In operation, the plowshare 35 serves to remove material of all sizes from the ties and spaces intermediate therefrom into position in front of the frame plate 25, the toothed blade 26 and surfacing edge of the plate thereupon respectively raking and surfacing the ballast during the travel of the apparatus forwardly as denoted by direction arrow in Fig. 1.

Any material left by the plowshare on or between the ties is subjected to the action of the scraper 43, the teeth 34, the scraper bar 46 and finally to the brush 47, which act to finish the surface of the material between the ties below the plane of the upper surfaces of the ties in a pulverized and smooth condition. The brush furthermore serves to sweep any dirt from the ties into the spaces there in front.

Included in the invention is a second plowshare in the nature of a plate 53 rigidly secured to bracket arms 54 extending forwardly from the plate 25 and is also secured by stay rods 55 extending forwardly to the car attachment 22. n

531 represents a gutter-Inoki plate illustrated as a removable extension 'to the plate 53.

The plate 53 is disposed in substantially the position in which it is shown in Figs. l and 3, with respect to the car and to the plow share 35, that is to say-the outer end of the plate 53 is foremost and its inner end is located in front of the plowshare 35.

The lower edge of )late 53 and its extension 531 are serrated to provide teeth 56 and 561 whose points are in lines corresponding, respectively, with the contour of the ballast and gutter. These teeth are furthermore directed toward the track and are designed to break the ballast and gutter surfaces in advance of the grading and surfacing devices above described and also to cut vegetation to destroy the same.

The ground when thus broken by the teeth 56, 561 is by reason of the angular position of the plate 53 guided upwardly and inwardly toward the track to effect the filling of hollows in the ballast surface up to the contour line as defined by the points of teeth 56, 561.

Any surplus material remaining after filling such hollows, either passes over the inner portion of the plate 53 to be treated by the surfacing blade 26, or is delivered beyond the inner end of the plate to the plowshare 35.

To enable the material to pass, as above mentioned, over the inner portion of pla-te 53, such portion is made to a relatlvely small elevation to afford a way 57 (Fig 3) by bending the upper part of the plate down as at 58.

It is to be noted, in contradistinetion to the plow 35, and the plate 25, that the plate 53 serves to move the material uphill or toward the track. The plate 53 is peculiarly important in affording a means for distributing material to be subsequently surfaced by the parts of the apparatus to the rear thereof, and also for cutting weeds in resurfacing a track ballast.

was eos What l claim, is,-

1. ln apparatus of the character described,-the combination with ballast grading and Surfacing devices including a frame adapted 'to be connected to the side of a car, of vertically movable meanscarried by said lframe for progressively grading material between the successive railway ties to a surface below the plane of the upper surfaces of the adjacent ties.

2. ]ln apparatus of the character described, the combination with ballast rading and surfacing devices including a rame adapted to be connected to the side of a car, of a plurality ofindependently movable devices for digging material between the railway-ties, springs for yieldingly retaining Said devices in operative positions,

'vertically movable means carried by'said frame for progressively grading the material dug by said devices to surfaces below the planes of the upper surfaces of the successive railway ties, and means for sweeping material from the upper surfacesof said ties.

'3. lln apparatus of the character described, the combination .with a railway track, and car mounted thereon, of ballast grading and surfacing devices carried by said car at the side of the latter and one in front of the other, the lower edges of said devices being serrated to provide teeth, the teeth' of the forward of said devices being directed toward the track and the teeth of the other device being directed from the track.

t. lln apparatus ofthe character described, a car, means carried thereby for grading the ballast between the-ties of 'the car track to a surface below the plane of the top surfaces of said ties, said means in travelling with the car being arranged to be elevated by the successive ties to pass over the same.

5.' lln apparatus of the class described, a car, a frame carried thereby above the ties at one side of the car track, a plowshare supported by said frame obliquely of the f track for removing material from the track ties, and means carried by said frame in substantially rectangular relations to Said ties for grading the material intermediate said ties to a surface below the plane of the top surfaces of the ties.

, Signed at Ellensburg, Washington, this 28th day of August, 1920.

PASQUALE URSINO.

Witness:

A. L. B. Davies. 

